Dress-shield or garment fastener.



PATENTED'MAR}, 19, 1907.v G. L. RAZA & F. s. FRISBIEL. DRESS SHIELD 011GARMENT FASTENER.

APPLICATION FILED 00112. 1905.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GLADYS L. RAZA, OF MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA, AND FRANKLIN S. FRISBIE, OFBOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

DRESS-SHIELD OR GARMENT FASTENER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 19, 1907.

Application filed October 12,1905. Serial No. 282.391-

TO all ZU7b077l/ it may concern.-

Be it known that we, GLADYs L. RAZA, a citizen of Canada, residing atMontreal, Oanada, and FRANKLIN S. FRIsBIE, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State ofMassachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inDress-Shield or Garment Fasteners, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in fasteners andclasps, and more especially to devices of this character for securingdress-shields in position, although, of course, it is to be understoodthat the same may be used for any purpose wherein it is applicable.

It is an object of this invention to provide a novel device of thischaracter that may be quickly applied to the garment or shield andreadily removed therefrom, thus rendering the dress-shield capable ofbeing quickly attached and detached from the garment.

Finally, an object of this invention is to produce a device of thecharacter noted possessing advantages in points of simplicity,efficiency, and durability, proving at the same time comparativelyinexpensive to manufacture.

The dress-shield or garment fastener, to be hereinafter described, iscomposed of two parts or members made of spring metal, preferablysheet-steel, hinged one to the other. One of the members or partscarries a prong which is intended to pass through the armhole seam orcloth of a dress or other garment. This prong contacts with theremaining member of the fastener andrests within a pocket formedtherein.

The device may either be sewed to the shield or attached thereto bymeans of cloth sewed around the base of the fastener, as is illustratedin the drawings.

With the foregoing and other objects in view the invention consists inthe details of construction and in the arrangement and combination ofparts to be hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed.

In describing the invention in detail reference will be had to theaccompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, wherein likecharacters denote corresponding parts in the several views, in whichFigure 1 is a view in top plan of one of the members of the fastener.Fig. 2 is a similar view of the second member of the fastener. Fig. 3 isa view in side elevation of the fastener closed. Fig. 4 is a sideelevation of the fastener open. Fig. 5 is a view of a dressshield withthe invention applied thereto. Fig. 6 is a view of a fragment of ashield, showing a modified form of securing the fastener to the shield.Fig. 7 is a view in perspective of the fastener open or distended.

In the drawings, a indicates one of the members or parts of thefastener, which is formed of sheet metal, having one end enlarged. Theenlarged portion of the member is provided with the openings 1) for thepurpose of providing means whereby the member can be attached to thegarment. This is done by threads which pass through the garment and theopenings. The mem ber is provided with two longitudinal parallel slitsor cuts, which divide the member into a central section e and two sidesections (1. The free end of the section 6 is bent upon itself toprovide means for pivotally securing the hinged section a to the secondsection or part f, to be hereinafter described.

The second section or part f of the fastener is also of metal and isprovided at one end with an enlarged portion having therethrough aseries of openings 9 for the purpose of securing the said section f tothe garment, the same also being attached to the garment by threadspassing through said holes, as is the section a. The opposite end f ofthe section is also enlarged and is provided on its outer edge withextensions and bent upon themselves to form bearings for supporting thepivotal pin 1', which passes through the bent-back portion of thecentral section 6, for hinging this section a to the section f.

The intermediate portion of the section f 9= at a point slightly belowthe enlarged portion f is provided with a prong or needlepoint h, whichextends at approximately right angles therefrom, and this intermediateportion when the fastener is closed extends within a depression orpocket 0, formed in the central section e. The side sections (1, whichare free, rest upon arms 01, formed or carried by the portion f of thesection f, and slide thereon in opening and closing the fastener. Thearms '5 are bent out of plane with relation to the plane of the member fproper. To limit the movement of the section f in opening with relationto the section a, the ends of the side sections (1 are provided withdepressions or receptacles near their free ends which receive the endsof the arms '8 when the fastener is open to retain said fastener in suchposition. It may be well to state that the sections d, together with thearms 11, are resilient and will by their own action with relation one tothe other maintain or hold the fastener in such position. The sidesections d also bear upon the portion j" when the fastener is closed andhold said fastener in such position, which will, it is thought, bereadily appreciated without any further description and it is thoughtfully illustrated in Figs. 3, 4, and 7 of the drawings.

In operation the members or parts a and f of the fastener are positionedat each end of the dress-shield k and are spread open. The edge of thearmhole-seam c of the garment is slipped between the sections or membersa and f, which are then pressed together or closed, the prong orneedle-point h passing through the edge of the armhole-seam and enteringa recess within the pocket 0. When it is desired to remove the shield,the members a and f are distended one with relation to the other, andthus the shield may be readily removed.

The fasteners are intended to be permanently attached to thedress-shield 70 by threads passing through the openings g, and

in Fig. 6 a slightly-modified means is illustrated. In this view thefastener n is secured to the shield k by means of the cloth m, which isstitched to said shield, the free ends of the sections of the fastenerbeing inserted, when assembled, through the cuts 0 and p in the cloth m.

Having fully described our invention, what we claim as new, and desireto secure by Letters Patent, is

A dress-shield or garment fastener composed of two hinged members, onemember having a portion provided with hinge-eyes at its extremity and aspace between the hingeeyes adapted to receive the hinge-eye of theoperating member and a hinge-pin connecting the two members, the saidportion at its base being slotted longitudinally so as to form two armsand having between and below the arms a center piece, connecting theupper portion with the lower portion or base, provided with aneedle-point or prong, said arms being slightly turned up in thedirection of the needle-point, so as to cooperate with the longitudinalportions or springs of the cooperating member, the other member beingslotted longitudinally, so as to form three portions the center piece orportion being provided with a receptacle or' pocket adapted to receiveand cover the said needlepoint of the firstnamed member, and having atits extremity a hingeeye, and each portion or spring on either side ofthe center piece being curved so as to press against the arms of thefirst-named member and hold the two hinged members of the fastenertogether in its closed position, each of the said portions or springsbeing provided near its eX- tremity with a receptacle to receive andhold the arms of the first-named member, when the fastener is open.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification inthe presence of two subscribing witnesses.

G-LADYS L. RAZA. FRANKLIN s. FRISBIE.

Witnesses:

JOHN H. Games, HERBERT C. CoY.

